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We're proud to announce the return of Codegeist, Atlassian's development competition. Whether you're a seasoned Atlassian add-on developer or just trying out our platform, Codegeist is a great way to win cool prizes for your code.
How to enter
We want to make it easy to participate in Codegeist, so there's no need to register or put together a submission. Just submit your add-on to the Atlassian Marketplace, and you'll automatically be considered for the monthly Codegeist prize. The criteria are

We wrapped up the seventh iteration of Atlassian's add-on development contest, Codegeist, a few weeks ago. The contest ran from February 1 to May 31 and saw our developer ecosystem contribute close to 100 completely new add-ons to the Atlassian Marketplace. Devs could build whatever type of add-on they wanted–plugin, integration, client, mobile app, or anything else they could think of. The new add-ons cover the range of Atlassian products, from JIRA to Bamboo.
More money was up for grabs

On February 1, we launched the latest addition of Atlassian's add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for JIRA, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. This year's prize format is a little different–we're awarding a prize for the best add-on submitted during each month of the competition. That means $10,000 each

Codegeist: The Next Generation
Codegeist, Atlassian's add-on development competition, is back on! The seventh iteration of the world's best development competion began February 1 and goes until May 31. What's at stake? $65,000 USD in prizes for members of the Atlassian ecosystem, both new and old. This time, we're giving out a prize for each month of the contest. That means the prize haul looks like this:
Best Add-on of the Month ($10,000 x 4): One prize for the best add-on submitted during

Hindsight is a start-up company focused on building intelligent testing software that supports agile practices such as acceptance testing. Using the Atlassian Marketplace to enable rapid development of their first tool, Behave for JIRA, they had a platform to quickly deliverer a valuable product to a large number of software teams around the world. Atlassian competitions such as Codegeist showed Hindsight how easy it was to get started with plug-in development with JIRA and inspired the team

Yesterday was the last day to submit a plugin to Codegeist, our plugin coding competition. But the contest isn't over just yet! You still have time to get votes!
Get Votes and Win Cash
Three of the four prize categories will be chosen by Atlassian judges, based on usefulness, creativity, elegance, and completeness. The judges have 60 entries to go through, so they'll use votes to help them sort through the entries. The fourth prize category, the Community Prize, will be given away to the highest